Markus Zusak Quotes
Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.
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I had an agent in Salt Lake City, but acting was more like a hobby.
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Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
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I am a friend when I need to be a friend, a father when I need to be a father, a musician when music calls. I switch roles accordingly.
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I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.
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Well, Eminem, you know, I know him longer. Ive been signed to his label since 2001 and he's a good friend.
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I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope, if you ramble off... As my friend Julius Lester says, 'A picture book is the essence of an experience.'
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The nude scenes were a little eerie and I felt a bit odd. Yeah, when the camera scanned up my body, I said to my friend, 'Now, that's a close-up.' I mean, you see every inch of my body. But I'm okay with it and so it was cool.
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I think it's very hard to find a good friend. That's why I'm so lucky to have two sisters, because they're my best friends, and they have to be with me forever. They're stuck with me.
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The only time a friend has ever helped me in the industry was how I got my first job - that was through Mike Figgis.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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I pretty much only wear Lilly Pulitzer ties because my best friend owns the company.
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I just lost my best friend, I have been crying hysterical for a full day.
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If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.
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The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.
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You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.
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The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.
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Remember that failure is an event, not a person.
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The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.
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That was my first introduction to BMWs in 1978, when my friend bought it for me as a surprise with my money. And ever since then, I've stuck to BMWs.
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The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one. A Stanford study showed that those who saw a photo of their future self made smarter financial decisions.
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I just feel like there's this illicit thrill in reading other people's mail and spying on their lives.
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No matter the barbs of fate that frustrate you, no matter how stacked against you the cards of fortune. . . . There is a liberating law in the universe, and you can become the highest of the high, wisest of the wise.
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The way you think influences the way you feel, and the way you feel determines how you act.
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Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.
